‘Beslan is quietly going out of its mind’

In September 2004, Chechen terrorists took more than 1,200 people hostage in a school in Beslan, Russia. In the second of three extracts from the last book Anna Politkovskaya wrote before being murdered, she details the unbearable grief of a town that 'spends most of its time at the cemetery'
  
  

A man carries a wounded child from a school in Beslan, southern Russia, in which hundreds of people had been held hostage, after troops stormed it. Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP
A man carries a wounded child from a school in Beslan, southern Russia, in which hundreds of people had been held hostage, after troops stormed it. Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP

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